More than 500 downtown Detroit events are on the agenda for Quicken Loans Summer in the Parks, including the return of music and movies to Campus Martius and a host of new activities at Grand Circus Park and Capitol Park.

The popular 4th Fridays series at Campus Martius will include national headliners We the Kings (June 26), Bootsy Collins (July 24) and Steel Pulse (Aug. 28), while reggae bands will perform on other Fridays as part of the park's beach theme.

Events were announced Wednesday by Summer in the Parks organizers, which include the Detroit 300 Conservancy and the city's Parks and Recreation Department. A full schedule can be found at www.downtowndetroitparks.com.

Summer 2015 brings an expanded slate of activities to the annual festivities, which launched in 2004 at Campus Martius and now encompasses four downtown park spaces.

Capitol Park will debut a Saturday night music series — Live, Loud & Local — presented by the Detroit Institute of Music Education, along with a Sunday brunch and music event in August.

Grand Circus Park will host Rhythm & Stage Thursdays featuring opera, dance and other performances, along with a weekly tech seminar on Thursdays.

At Paradise Valley's Beatrice Buck Park, the schedule will include Dancing Under the Stars, with lessons and open dancing, June 20, July 18 and Aug. 15.

All will wrap up with Detroit SummerFest (presented by the Free Press) Aug. 27-29, when all four parks will be in action with a flurry of entertainment and activities.

New music from Janet Jackson

"Let's Wait Awhile"? Not really. Janet Jackson is releasing her first album in seven years this fall.

The pop icon said on her website Wednesday that the album, not yet titled, will be released on her own label, Rhythm Nation Records. She announced last month in a minute-long video that she was returning to music, with plans to launch a world tour.

Jackson said in a statement that "the opportunity to be creative in music and every form of entertainment has great potential here."

Her last studio album was 2008's "Discipline."

No 'K' name for Caitlyn Jenner

Choosing between a "C" and a "K" for her new name was no small task for Caitlyn Jenner, considering her famous K-heavy family of Kardashians.

In new material from Jenner's Vanity Fair interview, she said coming up with a new name had her looking in a variety of places.

"It's one of the hardest things in life — choosing your own name," she said. One way she attempted to come up with ideas was by watching the Miss America Pageant.

She also liked Heather and Cathy, but Caitlyn was a front-runner when her assistant independently suggested it, Jenner said.

She responded: "I love that name, too!" and the coincidence helped seal the deal, according to Vanity Fair.

But Jenner went back and forth about how it would be spelled, deciding it was best to break the Kardashian tradition.

Meanwhile, the E! Entertainment network says its documentary series on the former Bruce Jenner will be titled "I Am Cait." E! ramped up promotion Wednesday by releasing a video that depicts Jenner applying lipstick while sitting at a makeup table. The eight-episode series depicting her transition from a man to a woman will debut July 26.

Beans & Cornbread vies for award

Beans & Cornbread in Southfield has been nominated three times before for a Steve Harvey Neighborhood Award as the nation's best soul food restaurant, but hasn't won. Patrick Coleman is hoping that the fourth time is the charm this year.

"Beans & Cornbread is a four-time nominee, and … it almost feels as if we are the Susan Lucci of these awards," said Coleman, referencing the longtime "All My Children" actress who finally won an Emmy the 19th time she was nominated. "We want to get over that."

Beans & Cornbread earned nominations in 2011, 2012 and 2013. The awards will be given out in Atlanta in August.

Showtime to begin streaming service

Showtime will join rival HBO with an online streaming service for those who don't want to pay for cable.

The cable channel said Wednesday that it will begin streaming in July for $10.99 a month on all Apple devices, including the iPad, iPhone and Apple TV. CBS Corp., which owns Showtime, said it will be available on non-Apple devices soon.

Showtime launches its streaming service July 12.

Briefly

■You'll soon be able to smell like Johnny Depp. The actor has agreed to endorse a fragrance for the first time, signing up with Dior. Perfumer Francois Demachy is behind the new men's scent, which does not yet have a name.

It will be released Sept. 1, around the time Depp's new movie, "Black Mass," is scheduled to open.

■Gabourey Sidibe has been holding back. The Oscar-nominated actress best known for the film "Precious" and hit TV series "Empire" is working on a memoir scheduled to come out in 2017.

In a statement issued through her publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the 32-year-old Sidibe said she had been writing since childhood and was anxious to share stories "too long, shady and impolite" for interviews.